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Permutations Related to Secant, Tangent and Eulerian Numbers

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Morton Abramson
Morton Abramson*
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Department of Mathematics, York University, 4700 Kelle Street, Downsview, Ont., M3J IP3
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It is well known that

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where An denotes the number of "up-down" or alternating permutations

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of 1, 2, …, n. The numbers A2n and A2n+1 are known as the secant and tangent numbers respectively and A2n = (—l)"E2n, where En is the Euler number.

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1979 , pp. 281 - 291
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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